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So im reformatting my computer, i am booting from the Windows XP CD and then deleting the partition and creating a new one and reformatting it. It finishes the windows install, after like 20min it gets to 100%, then it starts installing some other windows things, and it gets to about 15% and says
"The file samsrv.dll was not copied correctly, press enter to try again or ESC to skip"
...i thought that was weird, so i tried again and it came back up, so i just skipped it, then a second later it comes up again, this time the file is esent.dll that could not be copied, so i skip, then srvsvc.dll, then cmd.exe, then msxml.dll, then msimsg.dll...eventually i hit F3 and just quit the install and shut my computer down.

No i have had this disk for over a year and have used it many times. And i always do regular format, i never do the quick NTSF format. And i cant really use those programs because my harddrive is wiped clean, i already tried deleting the partition, so there is nothing on the computer right now.

nope, the disk is perfect, not 1 smudge, it gets all the way to 100% when its installing windows, which is why i think it has nothing to do with the disk or CDrom drive. Its just right after when its finishing the install installing some other windows components and such.

I had this exact problem today at work loading a new machine for a client. Tried two different CD ROM drives and three different CDs. Turns out it was a bad/flaky/incompatible piece of RAM (that up until I reloaded the OS worked fine...including the first time I loaded the OS on the machine a few months ago).

But i just purchased the RAM a couple weeks ago, and the computer ran perfectly, i was playing HalfLife2 for like 8 hours flawlessly, and the only time it started doing this is when i put the XP CD in to reformat, i havnt touched the RAM since the day i put it in, so i dont think it could be RAM ?